- Medication Safety
- Accreditation
- Quality
Elizabeth Hess, PharmD, MS, FISMP, CPPS
Assistant Professor
Liz Hess, PharmD, MS, FISMP, CPPS currently serves as the Associate Director of Medication Safety & Quality at UK HealthCare in Lexington, KY. She also serves as the RPD to the PGY2 Medication Use Safety and Policy program. She received her Doctorate of Pharmacy from The Ohio State University, then went on to complete a PGY1/PGY2/MS HSPA Residency at UNC Medical Center. Post-residency she completed the ISMP Safe Medication Management Fellowship. Her areas of interest include second victim, emergency preparedness, pharmacy operations, and accreditation. Her recent publications include the use of technology assisted workflow for sterile products and the impact of electronic health record transition on chemotherapy error reporting.
Expertise
Positions
- Adjunct Faculty
- Clinical Pharmacist, UK Healthcare
Education
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Doctor of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University
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Master of Science, University of North Carolina
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Pharmacy Practice Residency in Health-System Pharmacy Administration, University of North Carolina Medical Center
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Academic Fellowship in Safe Medication Management, ISMP
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.